IRVINE, Calif.  Whitman College's women's tennis team broke back from a deficit after the doubles matches to capture the first two points in singles play, but 40th-ranked Vassar (N.Y.) College bounced back with four consecutive match victories to steal a 6-3 win over the No. 27 Blues in a neutral-site match at the University High School courts.

Hanna Greenberg and Andrea Gu earned the first point of the afternoon for the Blues (5-5), downing the Brewer's Tara Edwards and Morgane Flournoy at No. 1 doubles by a resounding 8-1 score.

Though Vassar (7-2) would come out of the doubles with a 2-1 lead, the advantage would be short lived as Anastasiya Redkina and Gu picked up the points from the initial two completed singles bouts.

Redkina would score first, with a 6-2 and 6-1 victory over Flournoy at 5-singles, and Gu would lift Whitman into the lead with her 1 and 3 victory over Edwards at No. 2.

The Brewer women would take the next two matches to finish, at Nos. 6 and 4, to wrest back the lead and leaving the deciding point on the courts at Nos. 1 and 3.

Greenberg battled Meghan Rodick into a third set at 3-singles, rallying with a second-set 7-5 win after dropping the opening set. Rodick would go on to take the deciding third, 6-1, to pull out the win and claim the match-clinching point.

Though the team outcome had been decided, the battle at 1-singles was still going on.

Mary Hill fell behind Vassar's Frances Cornwall in a 6-2 first-set loss but, like Greenberg, would come back to take the second set, 7-5, to square their match. Cornwall would eventually come out on top, though, with a 6-2 win to close out the afternoon.

Whitman's spring trip into Southern California continues Thursday with a match against No. 18 Trinity (Texas) University that will be played at The Claremont Club in Claremont, California.